Captain Myles Moylan’s Troop A suffered five soldiers killed in action and six wounded in action at Wounded Knee, one of whom died of wounds the following day at Pine Ridge. The dead included Sergeant Arthur C. Dyer shot in the chest, and Saddler Henry Frey and Privates George P. Johnson, James Logan, and Michael Regan, all of gunshots to the head. Private Herman Granberg died of his wounds the following day and was, according to Dr. Charles Ewing’s account, shot to pieces. The other five wounded included Lieutenant Ernest A. Garlington shot in the right arm, Private Harry L. Duncan of a pistol wound to his face, Private Daniel McMahon with a gunshot to his right foot, Private Adam Neder of a gunshot wound to his right shoulder, and Sergeant Alvin H. Haselwood who suffered multiple gunshot wounds to his left thigh and his left arm above and below his elbow. Haselwood ultimately became the final death of the campaign.[1]

In early January 1891, all of the wounded that were stable enough to be moved by wagon and rail were transported to Fort Riley, Haselwood among them. He likely never left the hospital, as he contracted influenza and eventually died of pneumonia on 11 March. The entry on the post Burial Register and on his Final Statement make no mention of his death being connected to his wounds. However, his comrades clearly considered Sergeant Haselwood’s demise as a direct course of his gunshot wounds suffered during that winter’s campaign, as they included his name on the Wounded Knee Memorial as one of the killed.[2]

Haselwood, Alvin, SGT